U.S. Constitution Does Not Take Sides
A March 20 letter states that “the U.S. Constitution focuses its power on protecting the rights and beliefs of the minority.” Unfortunately, this couldn’t be more wrong. That so many believe the Constitution is a document which grants rights and privileges to special groups or minorities is a point of view that continues to gain support regardless of its divisiveness.
The Constitution is a document that tells the government, in no uncertain terms, how to behave. The founders understood that any government, regardless of how benign, craves more and more power over the governed. Consequently, the concept of inalienable rights. Rights that may not be infringed upon for whatever reason by any group. Assigning the document as a protector of the few prostitutes the ideal of liberty and inalienable rights by setting one group against the other.
Leo Robinson
Fountain Valley
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